Autism Quotes - Page 7

• Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Snapshots

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.

  Dan Burton

  Children, Believe, Vaccines

  Dan Burton's Opening Statement during Congressional Hearing "The Status of Research into Vaccine Safety and Autism", www.gpo.gov. June 19, 2002.

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• We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Stars, Talking

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.59, The Golden Sufi Center

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• William Stillman continues his fascinating exploration of the myriad connections between autism and human personality. The Soul of Autism makes a strong case for why we should embrace rather than fear the differences between us.

  Dean Hamer

  Strong, Differences, Personality

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• Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.

  Stuart Duncan

  People, Ignorant, Needs

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• Autism; It's not new just because you haven't heard of it until now.

  Stuart Duncan

  Heard, Havens

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• I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve, you know, animal handling and transport and make a real change out in the field on the ground.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Animal, People

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were in the computer industry and they just taught the kids programming at, you know, age eight and nine and they just went on into the industry with their parents.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Successful, Eight

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Vaccines, Parent

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The chemtrails can cause all these things. Autism. It's not just vaccines that have gone wrong. The chemtrails that are causing all this that you see flying above you. You've seen 'em, folks, streaks. Usually behind airplanes. That's why they're called chemtrails. Contrails. You think they're contrails, but they're actually very insidious things, chemtrails.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Airplane, Thinking, Flying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's always nice when someone reaches out and says, "I have an autistic brother," or "I have someone else." Some people are really sweet and they're like, "Aw, you're my role model, thank you for doing this." This is why I do it. I want to use being involved in this Autism Speaks charity and take advantage of my contacts in order to raise awareness. It's something I've been wanting to do for so long.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  Sweet, Brother, Nice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My brother was diagnosed with autism, so it's something that hits close to home. And as I got older - especially when I started modeling and being in the city - I wanted to do help. I became involved with Autism Speaks.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  Brother, Home, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism, but with dyslexia, learning problems, ADHD, attention deficit, you know, things like sound sensitivity, problems with fluorescent lighting.

  Temple Grandin

  Sound, Attention, Research

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them.

  John Donvan

  Different, Want, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm actually working on with Autism Speaks. Since my brother's 18, I wanted to work on a program for these older kids. A lot of the schools' special education programs end when the kids are 21, like my brother's school. What is next for these kids? I want him to be constantly active, and not just sitting at home. I want him to be constantly growing and it would be amazing if the funds could go to something like jobs for these kids, or a home where they can be together.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  School, Kids, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm looking into different parts of Autism Speaks. There's a lot of focus on the first, early diagnosis of younger kids, which is amazing, but I'm wondering, what about these older kids? What happens with them? So I would like to try to find something that fits that.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  Kids, Focus, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rain Man certainly didn't test really well. If you look at it carefully, you have a disease autism they didn't understand back then, they didn't know in the test audience whether it's okay to laugh or not laugh, because it's a film that's done in a way where, "Well, maybe I'm not supposed to laugh." At the end of the film, Dustin Hoffman gets on the train and doesn't even acknowledge his brother. Not even a glance, nothing. That's why the studio said, "Can't you just have him look at Tom Cruise at the end of the film?"

  Barry Levinson

  Brother, Rain, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Real, Environmental, Genetics

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• As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

  Thomas R. Insel

  Thinking, Agency, Research

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• Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries

  Jacob Barnett

  Children, Discovery, Missing

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• You take somebody - one person has definitely got autism, you got another person that maybe has some of those traits and maybe there's some anxiety, depression, some epilepsy or something in the family history. Put them together, you're more likely to have a severely autistic kid than if you don't have any neurological problems in the family history.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Epilepsy, Anxiety

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

  John Donvan

  Eye, Years, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The truth can finally be told: Donald Trump's autism was caused by a vaccination that went terribly wrong; this explains why he can't relate to other people.

  Michael R. Burch

  People, Trump, Relate

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• Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Recovery, Helping Others

  "Who’s Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Suffering, Pool

  Temple Grandin (2008). “Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism”, p.217, Vintage

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